Efficacy of the Lexicon Pirate Strategy Therapy for Improving Lexical Learning in School-Age Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Autor/inn/en	Motsch, Hans-Joachim; Marks, Dana-Kristin
Titel	Efficacy of the Lexicon Pirate Strategy Therapy for Improving Lexical Learning in School-Age Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Quelle	In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 31 (2015) 2, S.237-255 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0265-6590
DOI	10.1177/0265659014564678
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Program Effectiveness; Pretests Posttests; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Comparative Analysis; Therapy; Speech Language Pathology; Syntax; Language Impairments; Vocabulary; Language Acquisition; Outcomes of Treatment; Foreign Countries; German; Semantics; Expressive Language; Receptive Language; Sentences; Comprehension; Generalization; Grade 3; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Therapie; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Wortschatz; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Ausland; Deutscher; Semantik; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Deutschland
Abstract	Lexicon Pirate was originally developed as a strategy intervention programme to treat lexical disorders of pre-school children. To evaluate the therapy's effectiveness for school-age students, a randomized controlled trial (RCT, N = 157) was conducted. Based on a pre--post-test design, the programme's impacts were compared with a control group (CG) that did not receive the strategy training. Potential long-term impacts were analysed with a follow-up test (four months after the intervention was completed). Therapeutic success is interpreted by an improved performance in standardized tests compared to the CG. The experimental group (EG) made significant to highly significant progress on both lexical and syntactical levels. The improvements of the EG are statistically significantly higher compared to the control group's performance (exception: Subtest 1, P-ITPA). Consequently, the trial proves the advantages of this strategy therapy compared to the CG, finding that the Lexicon Pirate is an effective approach for treating lexical disorders of school-age students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01